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RESOLUTIONS 



ADOPTED BY THE 



Rhode Island Institute of Instruction. 

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October 29, 1910. 



Printed and Distributed by the Department of Education, 
State of Rhode Island. 



Resolved, That the thanks of the Institute are hereby tendered 
to the speakers for their inspiring- and informing - addresses, to the 
President, to other officers, to the heads of departments, whose 
well-directed efforts have made especially noteworthy the sixty- 
sixth meeting of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction. 

Resolved, That our appreciation is hereby recorded of the gen- 
erosity of Brown University, Rhode Island Normal School, and 
of the city of Providence, in placing at our disposal various 
buildings for meetings of the Institute. 

Resolved, That our thanks are hereby given to Brown Univer- 
sity for providing for the teachers of the State the admirable list 
of extension courses ; furthermore we desire to express the hope 
that it may be practicable for the President to arrange soon for a 
Summer School at the University. 









Eesolved, That our thanks are hereby expressed to the Ehode 
Island College for the Summer School courses which it is offering 
to the teachers of the State. 

Resolved, That the Institute endorses most heartily the efforts 
of the State Board of Education to provide extension courses for 
teachers at the Normal School, and expresses the hope that such 
courses be permanently established in the near future. 

Resolved, That we heartily approve of the system of Travel- 
ling Libraries for Teachers as put into operation by the Commis- 
sioner of Public Schools, and that we express the hope that means 
may be provided for the extension of the plan. 

Resolved, That Rhode Island should place herself in the line 
of progressive states of the Union in having laws for the proper 
ventilation and sanitation of all public school buildings ; and to 
this end, that no new school building be erected in the State un- 
less the plans for the said building have the approval of the State 
Commissioner of Education so far as these matters are concerned. 

Resolved, That specific legislation should be enacted requiring 
adequate medical inspection of pupils throughout the State. We 
further recommend that the eyes, ears, teeth, and throat of all 
pupils should be inspected at least once a year, believing that 
such procedure would save children needless suffering and teed 
to secure their more rapid progress through the school curriculum. 

Resolved, That we condemn the use in public schools of the 
State, of the common drinking cup, of the common towel, of the 
common soap, and the exchange of pencils and other utensils as 
dangerous to the health of the pupils. 

Resolved, That we approve the effort for the prevention and 
cure of tuberculosis in this State. We commend particularly the 
work of the Rhode Island Anti-Tuberculosis Society for the vig- 



orous and sustained war which it is carrying- on against this dis- 
ease. We endorse also Open-air Schools which have been organ- 
ized for the children of weak constitutions, and recommend that 
the number of such schools be increased. 

Resolved, That the prevalent habit of excessive theatre-going 
on the part of school children deserves and receives our disappro- 
bation. We especially condemn the unsupervised Moving Picture 
Exhibitions and so-called " cheap " theatres as harmful to the 
morals, manners, and health of the youth of this State. 

Resolved, That the Institute believes that more adequate pro- 
vision should be made for the instruction of sub-normal children 
through the establishment of a greater number of special schools 
and the better equipment of the teachers. 

Resolved, That Rhode Island should follow the example of 
Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Ohio, California, Iowa, Massachusetts, 
Nebraska, Oregon, and Vermont in providing legislation prevent- 
ing the formation and prohibiting the existence in the public 
schools of the State of secret societies, such societies having been 
proven to be inimical to the interests and government of the 
schools of a republic. 

Resolved, That we favor the teaching of scientific agriculture 
throughout the State especially in rural schools, we heartily en- 
dorse also the principles underlying the making of gardens by 
school children. 

Resolved, That this Institute urges the General Assembly to 
enact legislation providing for the establishment in such sections 
of the State as seem best adapted to the purpose, of public day 
and evening schools which shall give instruction in the arts and 
practice of trades to persons who have attained the age of four- 



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teen years, and that the Committee on Legislation 
asked to use their influence to this end. 



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Resolved, That we repeat and emphasize the resolutions of 
preceding- years favoring a law for tenure of office preventing the 
removal without cause of public school teachers, superintendents, 
and supervisors after they have completed a reasonable period of 
satisfactory service, and that we request the Committee on Legis- 
lation to use its influence to secure the passage of a State tenure 
of office law at the next meeting of the General Assembly. 

Resolved, That we approve the plan to promote Educational 
progress through the United States Bureau of Education as for- 
mulated by the Commissioner of Education, Elmer E. Brown; we 
heartily endorse his request for $75,000 and the purpose for which 
the sum has been asked; and we furthermore resolve that the 
Secretary of the Institute be directed to send a copy of the above 
resolution to the Honorable Richard A. Ballinger, Secretary of 
the Interior, and to the senators and representatives of this State 
at Washington. 

Resolved, That, as an additional incentive to the study of 
Rhode Island History, and to awaken and to stimulate patriotism, 
every schoolhouse should be provided with, and should display a 
State Flag. 

Resolved, That we heartily welcome the National Religious 
Educational Association to this State and that we hereby express 
our interest in, and sympathy with its work. 



